Entry
number 3333. Vanguard Station Reckoning. All systems stable. Nothing new to
report.

It’s been
nine years since the war started; nine years since she has received
acknowledgement or contact from anyone. Marooned alone on proto-colony planet
Hestia, aging xeno-geologist Jyothi Agarwal still continues her routine transmissions
in the hopes that someone, somewhere, is listening.

Then one
day, out of nowhere, a brilliant light illuminates Hestia and something falls
from the sky.

In the west,
he wakes up in pain and alone. There is light everywhere. A new sense of weight.
A broken body. Words. Knowing. And he realizes that against all odds, he is
inexplicably alive.

On
a planet far removed from everything, the last human and a fallen star find
companionship in each other–and perhaps something more. Something beautiful,
shining, lasting. Something luminous.

***

And
there you have it—a hero who is literally a star! Most fitting for an SFR. Even better, the Book
Smugglers informed me the heroine is in her sixties and a woman of color. Yay!

LUMINOUS
officially releases July 21, 2015, but it's available now on Amazon. Learn more
in the The
Book Smugglers' announcement
post.

About Me

Heather’s debut sci-fi romance novel, Once Upon a Time in Space, features the last living descendant of Christopher Columbus on a desperate quest to find a new world. Standing in his way is Raquel, the deadliest space pirate in the galaxy.